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Invasion!

June 6th to June 29th

Thursday - Saturday @ 8pm & Sunday @ 2pm

Badass Theatre Company's inaugural production isINVASION!by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated by Rachel Wilson-Broyles. It is directed by Antonio Sonera. INVASION! is an uproarious tornado of words, images and ideas, all centered around a magical name: Abulkasem. The play assaults our deepest prejudices about identity, race and language. At once hilarious, unsettling and poignant, this deeply subversive play deconstructs a threatening identity – the Arabic male – and forces us to confront our own cultural identity.

Here is what the critics have said:

"Jonas Hassen Khemiri's inventive tragicomedy "Invasion!" hits all the right notes on the way to its moving conclusion, managing to infuriate, then amuse, then enthrall without ever seeming disjointed or unsure."

-Sam Theilman, Variety

"An agressive work of theatre. Compelling contemplative drama. A testament to the living, breathing use of spoken words in the theatre. There is art, heroic art to be mined from the struggle to speak the unspeakable."

-Ben Brantley, NY Times

"Exposes a truth that might not be intuitive-theatre can be subversive, even defiant, and at the same time sweetly charming. Highly theatrical and original."

-Associated Press

INVASION! will run at the Miracle Theatre in Portland Oregon (525 SE Stark) from June 6th through June 29th. Thursday through Saturday @ 8pm Sunday @ 2pm. It features Gilberto Martin del Campo, Nicole Accuardi, John San Nicholas, and Chantal DeGroat. Tickets will be $15 for students and $20 for general admission.

Invasion! 2014

June 11th to June 27th

Wednesday-Saturday @7:30pm Milagro Theatre 525 SE Stark Tickets $20

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!

Selected as BEST PRODUCTION 2013

INVASION! by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated by Rachel Wilson-Broyles. It is directed by Antonio Sonera. INVASION! is an uproarious tornado of words, images and ideas, all centered around a magical name: Abulkasem. The play assaults our deepest prejudices about identity, race and language. At once hilarious, unsettling and poignant, this deeply subversive play deconstructs a threatening identity – the Arabic male – and forces us to confront our own cultural identity.

Last summer’s original cast returns! John San Nicolas, Chantal Degroat, Gilberto Martin Del Campo, and Nicole Accuardi will return to the Milagro stage for a short three week run from June 11th through June 27th.

SANS MERCI by Johnna Adams

September 11th to October 11th

Thursday through Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday's at 2pm

Sans Merci continues Badass Theatre Company’s explosive and challenging ways, directed by Badass co-founder and Producing Artistic Director, Antonio Sonera, and starring Jahnavi Caldwell-Green, Jessica Tidd and four-time Drammy Award winning Portland icon, Luisa Sermol.Sans Merci by Johnna Adams. An idealistic young woman – the sole survivor of an ambush by South America revolutionaries – is visited three years later by the conservative mother of the other attack victim. Slowly, the two dance through their grief, while negotiating the truth of what brought the two young women together, why they undertook their dangerous humanitarian mission, and what happened on that final day. Sans Merci is a drama about love, a tragedy about loss, and a celebration of courage in the darkest heart of the human condition.